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There's a guy near me that police are looking for now. He broke into this lady's house and went through all of her belongings, masturbated all over her bed, stole her underwear, left Polaroid pics of his dick spread out in the room and left her a note saying he was coming back while she was home. Police said they believe its not someone she knows. She has a female roommate and he only went into her room...so he had been watching her enough to know which room of the house was hers. VERY creepy.

You need to have the guys actual DNA. DNA match is confirmatory, not something you can use to find them (unless their DNA sequence is already on record for somthing else). Not to mention it is still fairly expensive.

It’s time consuming too. Some police departments wait until they have enough cases/samples to make up a certain # of tests. Even with cases that have a lot of publicity, it can take months to get test results.

He refused to give a DNA sample. He would pick his hairs up off the lab floor, rinse his utensils after eating and never wore gloves. Finally the supervisor made him wear gloves one day and she grabbed them when he tossed them. DNA from the sweat inside was a match

I remember watching a Forensic Files ep very similar to this if not the same one. They tried so hard to get him to have a drink of water or smoke a cig when they questioned him and he turned it all down. They thought he'd never voluntarily do something like that. Then when he walked out he just spat on the ground and they just took the DNA from that.

Every year it is getting cheaper, true. For commercial sequencing it is cheaper because they have a semi-industrial process for sequencing many at once. I assume, that when it is someone's life at risk they dont simply do the commercial process and send it to a professional lab. Most certianly they dont just do DNA Fingerprinting (Via gel electrophoresis) which is hella cheap but by no means accurate.

From what I understand most police departments don’t have their own crime lab, everything gets sent to the state crime lab which is backlogged by some years, and crimes like rape, murder, etc get pushed to the front of the line while less serious crimes are put at the back of the line. They said they collected DNA but don’t think it will be of much help.

Rape kits aren't necessarily pushed to the front of the line. Thousands of rape kits sit untested. Some for decades. Prosecuting rape is not something that is a priority for most police departments unless it's a violent, serial criminal that they suspect is committing the rapes.

My state's got a backlog of rape kits that was recently in the news because they were back-logged at over 2000 or some high number. These rapists weren't getting put in prison because of it and were going around raping still. One guy was in the news for finally getting put away, but the article pointed out that other rape kits that were completed identified him as the perp. Over 7 other rapes. So while the kits sat around he was committing more crimes. Unacceptable.

That really is insane. I'm no fan of this "always believe the victim" mentality, but when someone does the right thing and comes forward to give real evidence that should absofuckinglutely be a priority to process. What the hell

Right, and rape with DNA evidence is one of the quickest ways to put someone away and keep them from staying loose and repeatedly doing it. So the fact they're back-logged that far is just outright incompetence within the government.

As horrible as that is, since the identity of the rapist is already known doesn’t that make the rape kit moot? I could see it being run if he pleads not guilty and goes to trial but why run it if it isn’t going to provide any new info?

They could. If the guy already has his DNA on file due to a felony conviction, they could ID him. Otherwise, they can put it in a database for future matches. It’s up to the police as to whether they do that. Personally, as a victim of this guy I would push for DNA testing. It’s really not that big a deal nowadays in terms of cost.

Is it just me or is this happening more often now? A friend of mine had a similar thing happen to her but the guy got stuck in her bathroom window when the cops got there. Please lock your doors and windows.

Not from any source I can find. A homeowner nearby had security video of someone walking in the area that the police were wanting to talk to, but I don't see any updates that they figured out who the person was. I did find an update that the police department did send the DNA to a private company to get it processed faster.

That's oddly similar to a post i read on 4chan. When I get super burnt reading through everything elsewhere I occasionally scroll through /b/. There was a guy posting what I assumed to be copypasta crap, however he was keeping up in response to people's request. He basically was watching his neighbors through the window for some time and noticed that all the girls were leaving for vacation. After he saw the group leave their residence with a lot of luggage he decided he had enough time to break in and perv out over their stuff. He was taking pictures with stuff he found in the girls house and was jacking off on everything and was keeping up with comments which made me wonder if it could have been real. I really hope the guy that posted those pics and stuff on Chan was caught.... Scary stuff

Wasn't this the guy who targeted the woman at the Lake Lynn apartment complex in Raleigh? I remember hearing about this. Freaky stuff. I grew up right down the road from there and would sometimes walk the lake with friends at night.

I remember watching an episode of "Nightmare Next Door" years ago and I could not find the episode for the life of me. I knew his name was Drew but that's it. For some reason "Drew Sharp" came to mind but I think that was the kid Todd killed in Breaking Bad.

Anyway.. never thought I'd have this resolved. But once i read the victims name, it clicked. Then i googled it and sure enough, that was him.

They were actually watching him for a while and I guess he knew they were watching. They had his employer throw a pizza party as a way of trying to get his DNA, but he put his pizza crusts in his pockets, clearly realizing/suspecting he was being watched.

Was this the long-haired guy that they had to follow around forever to get a DNA sample? Like he would meticulously clean at work and stuff to make sure his hair and used water bottles, etc never wound up in a public area for the police to confiscate.